Quality assurance of the Brewer spectral UV measurements in Finland

• Main Authors: K. Lakkala, A. Arola, A. Heikkilä, J. Kaurola, T. Koskela, E. Kyrö, A. Lindfors, O. Meinander, A. Tanskanen, J. Gröbner, G. Hülsen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2008
• Subjects: Physics; QC1-999; Chemistry; QD1-999; Sodankylä
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/2ffa82aad2e34ee8b7eac94ec3fcca0f

The quality assurance of the two Brewer spectrophotometers of the Finnish Meteorological Institute is discussed in this paper. The complete data processing chain from raw signal to high quality spectra is presented. The quality assurance includes daily maintenance, laboratory characterizations, calc...